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From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
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- … 1860 and 1861). Wallace’s remarks are not recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society . In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , CD expressed a hope that Hooker might visit Down, if he could ‘spare a Sunday’. Hooker refers to the bishop of Natal, John William Colenso , the first part of whose book on the Pentateuch (Colenso 1862) had sparked religious controversy concerning rational biblical criticism. John Lubbock …
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1862]
Summary
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3469 |
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- … John and Ellen Frances Lubbock . William Jackson Hooker had been seriously ill since the summer of 1861 ( Allan 1967 , pp. 207, 208). Hooker refers to examinations for admission to the Army Medical Service, held at Chelsea Hospital in March 1862. Hooker served for many years as a scientific examiner for medical officers in the armed services (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 387); he was examiner for the paper on natural history, held on 11 March 1862 ( Statistical, Sanitary, and Medical Reports 1860, …
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |